Design and fatigue assessment of the hybrid monopile connection details using finite element analysis

Master thesis (2018)

Authors

M.J. Vogel Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

M. Veljkovic (supervisor 1)
Jasper Winkes (supervisor 1)
P.C. Meijers (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright: © 2018 Maarten Vogel
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Published Date

17-07-2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The hybrid monopile is a substructure concept for offshore wind turbines initially designed and developed by Fistuca B.V. This Thesis is about the initial concept design of the connection details in the hybrid monopile. Several concept connections are designed. The best concept is selected and thereafter assessed on the ultimate limit state, serviceability limit state and the fatigue limit state. This is all done using the finite element program ANSYS APDL.